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Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America

This study explores how a perception of children as imaginative and 'naturally' creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. It argues that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and chil...

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Auteur principal: Ogata, Amy Fumiko (Auteur)
Format: Online Resource Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013
Collection:Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
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USA
Accès en ligne:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816679607.001.0001
Documents similaires:Erscheint auch als: Designing the creative child
Notes sur l'auteur:Amy F. Ogata
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Art
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Résumé:This study explores how a perception of children as imaginative and 'naturally' creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. It argues that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and children's museums, were designed to cultivate an ideal of imagination in a growing cohort of Baby Boom children.
Description matérielle:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxii, 293 pages))
ISBN:9781452948119